Assist. Prof Eve LEJOT

Eve Lejot is an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching at the University of Luxembourg, working within the Institute for Research in Romance Studies. Trained as a linguist, she engages in transdisciplinary research on second language acquisition, foreign language learning, digital learning, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism. Within this interdisciplinary framework, her research focuses on issues related to work and education. She also serves as the coordinator of the French courses at the Language Center of the University of Luxembourg. The Language Center offers academic French, English, and German courses as part of the university’s Bachelor’s and Master’s programs.

Language learning and digitalization

She is an active member of the COST ACTION LITHME about Language. She conducts and writes papers within the Working group 5 about Language Teaching in the Digital Era. She coordinated an Erasmus+ project known as Language Centre Greater Region (LCGR). The project involved the six universities in the Greater Region (Luxembourg, Kaiserslautern, Liège, Lorraine, Saarland and Trier) with the aim of developing a common hybrid course in Moodle in German and French geared towards students in the Greater Region who are planning to complete an exchange semester in a German- or French-speaking area, as well as students from outside the Greater Region who come to one of the six UniGR universities for an exchange. The course involves both online and instructor-led learning. Before they set off, exchange students are virtually connected with each other via the Moodle platform.

Academic writing

She has organized a linguistic conference at the University of Luxembourg in December 2016 together with colleagues to strengthen multilingual approaches in academic writing research. An outcome of the conference has been the first volume of the new serie “Schreibwissenschaft” :  Academic writing across languages: multilingual and contrastive approaches in higher education (2019). Her research team focuses on analyzing corpora of academic texts in the three languages of Luxembourg University to identify common features that can be taught for all three languages and aspects that are different in linguistic and intercultural terms. Eve Lejot analyses the impact of peer review as well on the writing process (e.g. coherence) of PhD students.

Multilingualism at the workplace and at the university

Her research is on the impact of the multilingual language skills on the career paths. She joined on October 2019 a project about the recognition of transversal skills related to employability and the European qualifications Framework for higher levels of qualification (RECTEC+). Working on transversal skills highlights how the multilingual skills are now part of a professional profile and her collaboration focuses on how integrate the multilingual skills in the transversal framework. She analyses academic or working situations in order to define the level of communication skills required for each category of the framework.

Bachelor and Master courses:

• Course on Language pedagogy and digital tools for secondary school French teachers (Master of Secondary Education)
• Course on Multilingualism at the workplace and Discourse Analysis
• Course on Internationalisation in Higher Education
• Trilingual presentation skills
• Peertutoring program
• Language and cultural online course to prepare an Erasmus Mobility in French

Doctoral education at UL:

• Writing motivation and Peer review support
• Time and project management

Eve co-teaches workshop with Professor of University Stendhal, Grenoble and CNAM, Paris to share academic culture between PhD students with different academic background.

SERAFIN (2022-2025)

Support for language teachers to help the inclusion of refugee students in higher education,

• Funding: ERASMUS+, France
• PI: Deborah Meunier and Laurence Wéry, University of Liège
• Co-PI: Lejot Eve
• Partners:
  • University of Sherbrooke and University of Bishop, Canada: Olivier Dezutter, Sunny Lau, Sarah Theberg
  • University of la Sarre, Germany: Peter Tischer, David Chemeta
  • University Mohammed V de Rabat, Maroc : Mohammed Bouchekourte
• University Grenoble Alpes, France : Françoise Boch, Charlotte Dejean

RECTEC+ (2019-2021)

Recognition of transversal skills in relation to employability and the European qualifications framework for qualification levels of higher education,

• Funding: ERASMUS+, France
• PI: Pochelu J., de Ferrari M. (GIP, Versailles, France)
• Co-PI: Lejot Eve, Mattia G., Scripnic G., Sambourg, A., Petit P., Ganea A.
• Partners:
  • University of la Sarre, Germany
  • Conseil Régional de la Formation (Belgium)
  • Forem (Belgium)
  • Université de Galati (Romania)
  • Webhelp (France and Romania)
  • Université du Mans (France)
  • Ira de Lyon (France)
  • GIP FCIP de l’Académie de Versailles (France)

LCGR (2017-2019)

Creation of a network of language centres in the Greater Region as a model for a structured language learning system

• Funding: ERASMUS+, Luxembourg and UniGR
• PI: Lejot Eve
• Co-PI: Molostoff Leslie, Wery Laurence, Véronique Gueury, Tischer Peter, Knopp Peter, Gendron Laurence, Reinhard Bettina, Anne Chateau
• Partners:
  • University of Liège, Belgique
  • University technique de Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • University of Trèves, Germany
• University of Lorraine, France
• University of la Sarre, Germany

Language in the Human-Machine Era (2020-2025)

• Funding: COST Action Proposal OC-2019-1-23689
• PI: Dave Sayers (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
• Management Committee for Luxembourg: Lejot Eve
• Working group5: Language Teaching and Machine Era
  • • University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic: Blanka Klimova, Marcel Pickart
  • • University of Alcala, Spain: Antonio Pareja Lora
  • • University of Louvain La Neuve, Belgium : Fanny Meunier
  • • University autonomous of Madrid, Spain: Maria del Rocio Bartolome Rodriguez
  • University of Izmir Bakircay, Turkey: Aysel Sahin
  • Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI), Latvia, Lettonia: Yulia

2 research groups in Réseau international francophone de recherche en éducation et formation (REF)

• Evaluative approaches to doctoral systems, contributions for research and action

Member of an international French-speaking research group on the evaluation of doctoral programs, led by Emmanuelle Annoot (University of Rouen Normandy); Elsa Chachkine (CNAM: National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts); and Maryvonne Charmillot University of Geneva).

• On the fringes of monolingualism

Member of an international French-speaking research group led by Laurent Gajo (University of Geneva) and Anne-Claude Berthoud (University of Lausanne). The issue of multilingualism in science has become the subject of increasingly well-established research, but observable practices in the field and the discourse circulating among scientific actors are predominantly oriented towards monolingualism. The relationship between scientific work and discourse, as well as language, seems to be questioned very little, which results in the default adoption of a monolingual model. We critically examine the relationship between scientific work and multilingualism, both in general and by documenting practices in a variety of disciplinary fields (medicine, physics, law, etc.)

Common course created on Moodle : Préparation linguistique et culturelle en allemande et en français pour la mobilité dans la Grande Région.

The “Language Center Greater Region” course, abbreviated “LCGR”, is the result of a European Erasmus + project, which was conducted over a period of 2 years, between 2017 and 2019. The objective of the project was to set up a linguistic and cultural preparation program to help students achieve a successful university exchange in one of the 6 partner universities of the project, i.e. in Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Germany.

The course is available each winter semester online and in autonomy for the students of the Greater Region through 5 modules on Moodle.

Eve completed studies in linguistic and languages teaching. She obtained a PhD in Linguistics in 2013 under the joint supervision of Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France) and the University of Hamburg (Germany). The focus of her research was multilingual practices at Airbus and UNESCO in Hamburg.